Romeo and Juliet Final Essay Topics

Directions: Choose one of the below listed topics. Then, create a five paragraph essay that details a response to the prompt. Your essay will contain an introduction, three body paragraphs, and a conclusion.

  1. Romeo and Juliet are referred to as "star-crossed lovers". Discuss the concept of predetermined destiny (fate) and how it relates to the play.
  2. To complete this essay, you will decide what three roles you see fate playing. Or, you may choose to look at people who are driven by fate not choice. Finally, you may choose to look at three main conflicts that are driven by fate.
  1. Friar Lawrence serves many dramatic purposes in the play. Examine the Friar and his role in Romeo and Juliet.
  2. For this essay, you will examine and discover three main “roles” that Friar Lawrence serves. (confidante, advisor, etc)
  1. Describe and analyze the different types of love portrayed in the play.
  2. For this essay, you will take each body paragraph and describe a certain type of love using examples from the play.
  1. Apart from clashing with Tybalt, what role does Mercutio play in the story? Is he merely a colorful supporting character and brilliant source of comic relief, or does he serve a more serious purpose
  2. For this essay, you will look at Mercutio’s role in the play. You could organize your essay showing Mercutio’s role in each act. Or, you could think of three main functions Mercutio has in the play and separate those into the paragraphs.
  1. One critic of the play notes: “There is so much in Romeo and Juliet to disperse the tragic gloom.” Do you agree? Is there enough there to prevent the audience from being completely depressed by the outcome of the play? Discuss and analyze how characters, language, and conflict make this play more or less tragic.
  2. In this essay, you will look at Characters, language, and conflict as each of your body paragraphs.

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Essay Topic Chosen:

FCA’s

/ + / Mastering / +/- / Developing / +/- / Emerging
Ideas
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Development

(55) / Details: 30 29 28
Piles on clear, specific, and accurate details to develop the significance of each item
Uses quotations from the play accurately and well as specific details and implements smoothly and correctly. Each detail supports a clear TS that connects to the ThS. Must cite quote properly. / Details: 25 24
Identifies clear and accurate details but needs to focus on moving from general to specific and providing more specific evidence. May need to introduce and implement correctly more consistently or fluidly. May need to clarify the TS so it connects to the ThS and so all details connect to it. Has at least one error in citation. / Details: 20- 0
Presents a limited scope of details supporting the ThS and TS’s, and so needs to implement quotations correctly from the play to support all ideas and arguments OR presents loosely strung together details with need to show the connection. Needs to clearly state the position in a clear TS
Elaboration: 25 24
Elaborates details clearly and sufficiently to demonstrate the significance and relevance of each of the details; shows close, careful reading and analysis of how each piece of evidence supports the TS’s and ultimately the ThS / Elaboration: 21 20
Elaborates generally on details, leaving the reader with questions in some places – needs to expand further to demonstrate thoughtful analysis / Elaboration: 17-0
Needs to discuss the details so the reader is not left to make inferences; the significance of each detail must be addressed and explained in detail
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Fluency
(15) / Transitions: 15 14
Uses a variety of thoughtful transitions within paragraphs to establish connections between ideas and also between paragraphs to create connectedness; establishes a true cadence / Transitions: 12
Uses mechanical transitions to establish connections between ideas and paragraphs in a businesslike fashion – needs to use purposeful and creative connectives to create a fluid piece / Transitions: 10-0
Needs to utilize transitions/utilize transitions more thoughtfully so as to establish connectedness between sentences and paragraphs so as to avoid unnatural, choppy phrasing
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Structure
(30) / Structure: 30-28
Incorporates smoothly and thoughtfully each element necessary for an effective introduction and conclusion: a well-developed, thoughtful A-G, background information, clearly stated ThS, Plan of Development and re-statement of ThS and POD using different words and phrases, summary of significance, and a clever last line. Shows creativity, thought, and control over each of these skills / Structure: 25-24
Incorporates each of the required elements for the introduction and the conclusion, but may need to be more creative, more thorough, more thoughtful, use different words and phrases, or clarify positions. / Structure: 20-0
Reflects some of the required elements for an introduction and conclusion but may need to incorporate one or more of the elements.
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Name ______R & J Analysis Type 4 Essay

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